Community colleges no longer would be required to join an association under a bill heard by the Education Committee Jan. 28.<\/p>\n
York Sen. Greg Adams introduced LB211 to finalize an agreement reached by the community college boards. Under the bill, joining an association of community colleges would be voluntary.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis was something agreed upon when we were working on the funding formula, which we passed last year,\u201d he said. \u201cAll this does is put it into statute.\u201d<\/p>\n
The bill strikes a provision requiring any meeting by a community college association to be conducted in accordance with the Open Meetings Act. Dennis Baack, executive director of the Nebraska Community College Association, addressed senators\u2019 questions about the provision.<\/p>\n
\u201cUnder the bill we would not be subject to the Open Meetings Act,\u201d he said, \u201cbut we would certainly never preclude any member of the public from attending our meetings.\u201d<\/p>\n
Additionally, the bill would authorize the board of governors of any community college to use college funds to pay for association membership.<\/p>\n
No one testified in opposition to the bill and the committee took no immediate action on it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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